Usually means: Ladder-like toy with cascading blocks.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jacob's ladder: Merriam-Webster
  2. Jacob's ladder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Jacob's ladder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Jacob's ladder, Jacob's ladder: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Jacob's ladder: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jacob's ladder: Wordnik
  7. Jacob's ladder: Wiktionary
  8. Jacob's ladder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Jacob's ladder: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Jacob's ladder, jacob's-ladder, jacobs-ladder, jacobs ladder: Dictionary.com
  11. Jacob's Ladder, Jacob's Ladder (Bible), Jacob's Ladder (Mark Wills song), Jacob's Ladder (Not In My Name), Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name), Jacob's Ladder (Rush song), Jacob's Ladder (Saint Helena), Jacob's Ladder (album), Jacob's Ladder (disambiguation), Jacob's Ladder (film), Jacob's Ladder (novel), Jacob's Ladder (ropes course), Jacob's ladder, Jacob's ladder (electrical), Jacob's ladder (knife), Jacob's ladder (manifold), Jacob's ladder (nautical), Jacob's ladder (plant), Jacob's ladder (string figure), Jacob's ladder (toy), Jacobs ladder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Jacob's ladder: Rhymezone
  13. jacobs-ladder: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. jacobs ladder: FreeDictionary.org
  15. jacob's ladder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Jacob's ladder: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Jacobs Ladder: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jacob's Ladder (Bible), Jacob's Ladder (song), Jacobs Ladder, Jacob's-ladder, Jacob's ladder, Jacob's ladder (electrical): Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jacob's Ladder (Bible), Jacob's Ladder (song), Jacobs Ladder, Jacob's-ladder, Jacob's ladder: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. JACOB'S LADDER: Masonic Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jacobs Ladder: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)
  3. Jacob's Ladder: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jacob's ladder, jacobs ladder: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. JACOBS LADDER: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Jacobs Ladder, Jacobs Ladder: Latitude Mexico

Definitions from Wiktionary (Jacob's Ladder)

noun:  (biblical) A ladder leading to heaven.
noun:  A flowering plant of the genus Polemonium.
noun:  (nautical) A rope ladder from the ratline to the upper mast.
noun:  A toy consisting of blocks of wood, held together by strings or ribbons, that appear to cascade downward as they flip over.
noun:  A pocketknife consisting of two handle segments joined by a pivot, with a blade connected by a second pivot to the end of one handle segment.
noun:  (mathematics) A noncompact surface resembling a ladder made of handlebodies.
noun:  A high-voltage electrical device, often used as a visual effect in old movies, which has a pair of vertical electrodes that form an arc between them starting at the bottom, rising to the top, then repeating.
noun:  (UK) A serving of short ribs.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) A ladder or run in a pair of tights.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Jacob's ladder [(biblical) A ladder leading to heaven.]

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